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The head of the EPA disagrees with you. Here is his own words:
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He created EPA for much the same reason Reagan invited me to return to the agency in 1983: because of public outrage about what was happening to the environment. Not because Nixon shared that concern, but because he didn't have any choice.
Regardless, he still created the EPA, just like I said he did.
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OSHA was created under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, a bipartisan measure enacted on Dec. 29, 1970, and signed by President Richard M. Nixon. How did Nixon "create" OSHA?
He made it happen. Can you see any Republican president signing a big government program like that into existence today?
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Allison wrote: He was also the first president to require strict quotas for minorities for federal construction projects.
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Why are you citing this? I suppose the entire right wing is rascist?
No, I am citing it to show that, even though he was considered a conservative Republican in his day, no one calling themselves a conservative Republican TODAY would ever do such a thing, thus demonstrating the shift to the right in recent years of conservative Republicans.
I really wish you would pay attention.
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Johnson proposed the idea, not Nixon. The Soviets got scared and decided to talk after, and only after, Nixon announced the Safeguard system.
My point was, and is, as I stated above, that a conservative Republican
these days would probably not be signing any anti-missile treaties with anybody.
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We are a nation based on capitalism.
Agreed. I think capitalism is great, but it has it's flaws and needs to be regulated so the haves cannot completely stomp all over the have-nots.
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What did you expect? Journalism is reporting facts, not challenging whatever is popular. Your romantic view of journalism is naive.
Actually, if you knew anything of investigative journalism from as little as 50 years ago, you would know that it took it's mandate to challenge the status quo and investigate the powers that be very seriously.
A free and inquisitive press/media is extremely important in a free society. When money becomes more important to those agencies than informing the public, and they become big business, the public's access to unbiased reporting is compromised. These days, networks are quite beholden to their advertisers, so how much in-depth investigative journalism do you think is done regarding their corporate sponsors? A great deal of self-censoring goes on that didn't used to back when Cronkite was criticizing the wisdom of the Vietnam war on the evening news, and anti-war protests made it on to the news. Today, you will not hear one critical voice about this impending confrontation with Iraq, nor will you see much coverage of any of the protests and marches that have happened.
The number of independent news sources has been reduced drastically by huge mergers brought about by deregulation. On the other hand, the internet has opened up the world to all sorts of news that the big business networks don't report for fear of losing their advertisers or friends in government.
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Do me a favor and forward this post to whatever left wing propaganda rag that spoonfed you this bunk information in hope they will revise their "facts" to reflect the truth.
Personal attack, devoid of any content.
Point for me.
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Are you going to tell me Reagan was a Communist spy next?
Are you going to go to some anger-management classes next?
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